Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
I. introduction: Looking to the East
PATHWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE
II. Asia and Europe: Borders, Hierarchies, Equilibria
III. Changing Perspectives
IV. Traveling
V. Encounters
VI. Eyewitnesses-Earwitnesses: Experiencing Asia
VII. Reporting, Editing, Reading: From Lived Experience to Printed Text
THE PRESENT AND THE PAST
VIII. The Raw Forces of History. Apocalyptic Horsemen, Conquerors, Usurpers
IX. Savages and Barbarians
X. Real and Unreal Despots
XI. Societies
XII. Women
XIII. Into a New Age: The Rise of Eurocentrism
Notes
Bibliography
Index